Deer Lodge News

The Salish and Pend d'Oreille say they have lived in the Bitterroot Valley, the Valley of Spe'tlemen, since the beginning of human time and it is the heart of their ancestral homeland.

By The Associated Press BOYS BASKETBALL Billings Senior 45, Billings Skyview 44 Chester-Joplin-Inverness 47, Chinook 46 Corvallis 75, Anaconda 46 Deer Lodge 63, Manhattan 38 Lincoln 43, St.

Maybe I've lived in Helena too long , but somehow the idea of partisan connections leading to a cushy state job just doesn't shock me.

Latest Montana news, sports, business and entertainment: MONTANA RANCH-RUMSFELD Rumsfeld buys Montana ranch BUTTE, Mont.

The closure of Smurfit-Stone Container in Frenchtown will have a huge impact on Montana's integrated timber industry, according to Montana Wood Products Executive Vice President Ellen Simpson.

A Deer Lodge man has pleaded not guilty to deliberate homicide in the shaking death of an infant.

A 28-year-old Montana State Prison inmate who murdered his mother three years ago apparently committed suicide by hanging himself with a sheet, the prison announced Monday.

DEER LODGE - A Montana State Prison spokeswoman says a 28-year-old inmate has apparently committed suicide.

BUTTE - Shag Miller, 86, a retired Butte broadcaster and businessman, decorated World War II veteran and longtime supporter of the University of Montana, died of congestive heart failure Monday at an assisted living facility in Butte.

HELENA - The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission won't consider whether to allow a bow hunt for wolves until next spring.

A happy ending is in sight for the restoration of the Rialto Theatre in Deer Lodge as more financial support is on the way.

Very few of the growing number of Montana lawmakers taking state jobs appear to be complying with a largely forgotten ethics law requiring proof that such arrangements don't lead to double-dipping, a survey by The Associated Press has found.

Deer Lodge attorney and former Powell County Attorney, Chris Miller has been selected to replace Granite County Attorney Mark Jones in Philipsburg.

KALISPELL - A parole hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Deer Lodge in the case of a 59-year-old Okla-homa man convicted in the 1979 murder of a Polebridge man.

The administrator of the Montana State Hospital at Warm Springs says a patient is missing.

Representative Denny Rehberg visited Anaconda Wednesday for his 21 town hall meeting this year focusing on issues important to the Treasure State.

Barry Beach, convicted for the murder of 17-year-old Kim Nees near the Hi-Line town of Poplar, is about to get another chance to prove his innocence.

Here is the latest Montana news from The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. The state has notified about 2,000 jobless Montanans whose unemployment benefits have expired that they are now eligible for extended payments under a recently passed federal law.

The mother of a Deer Lodge man who died in a hunting accident says her son slipped and fell while carrying his rifle and the gun discharged, shooting him in the back of the head.

A 31-year-old Deer Lodge woman has pleaded guilty to forgery for stealing about $160,000 from the Powell County Ambulance Service while she worked as treasurer.